I don't know if you're referring to your own post or to pianisten's as a "haze," but I don't think there's any evidence for the progression you posit "of most pianists, from alpha to omega" (though I don't question your own experience in that regard).
"First, do the right rhythm, and the right notes. "
...this is what he's got? That's about it, huh?
Did he expect this reply, perhaps?
"Wow! And here I thought Liszt meant for Liebestraum to be played incorrectly and at a rhythmical random...thanks for clearing that up! I thought that he called it "Love Dream" ironically, that it is to be played more like a chaotic nightmare! I wish someone had told me this before! What a life saver! Thank you!!"
"First, do the right rhythm, and the right notes. "
I mean, if he had taken the time to add the classic smiley emoticon, it would have made a damn good bumper sticker, but as a post it's insulting, and even worse if was well-intended.
There's really only three explanations:
1. He literally thinks she isn't aware of the difference between correct and incorrect notes or rhythms, and must kindly point these novel concepts out to her if she is ever to progress.
(not likely)
2. He knows that she knows it needs work, and took a little time out of his day to peck a few keystrokes to deliver at best a little inane, unconstructive criticism, and at worst a haze.
(I assumed this at first, hence my post, but now admit it now seems unlikely)
3. He doesn't mean to be cruel, and genuinely desires to help, and has mastered just enough of the basic buzzwords to be able to, but lacks the knowledge to put it elegantly, or in any way that is likely to help. The blind being led by the barely-more-than-blind.
(I'm convinced of this now)
This forces me to "reposit." Great word by the way, I bet you also know a colon from a semicolon!
This is not the progression from alpha to omega, which of course there is "no evidence of..." This is alpha to beta. I assumed he was further along, based on the formidable pieces he plays that the site "automatically" puts in his signature (like he didn't type them somewhere!)
But anybody, even beta-fish, can play formidable pieces un-formidably, and it stands to reason that if he were an omega, a finished artist, he would have acquired (somewhere in the twenty one years after the Berlin Wall's fall, a rather long time to be alive) something to say that would help someone who aspires to be as him, and a novel way to say it!
Something like, I don't know, an inroads to actually play the correct notes and rhythms? If that advice were all it took, we wouldn't have need of pricey teachers, would we? A cheap, tape recorded loop of the words, "get a metronome, and stay with it" would suffice.
Hmm...you may be onto something there, though you may not want to "posit" it in the teaching wing...
So, to pianisten, I am sorry I underestimated you. I merely overestimated you. Won't you forgive me?
And to bob, you noble wagon-circler, I am sorry I disparaged true omega pianists, who, while perhaps iconoclastic, or even blunt (Richter) are never uninformed, or beige. But what do I know? As you have shrewdly assumed, and have no reason to doubt, I never progressed past alpha!